| An immutable sequence of characters. When created by the same
implementation, objects implementing this interface must obey the
general
when compared
with each other. Therefore,
Name objects from the same
implementation are usable in collections while
Name s from
different implementations may not work properly in collections.
An empty
Name has a length of zero.
In the context of
, the guarantees for "the same" implementation must
include contexts where the
side effects of
could be visible
to each other, including successive annotation processing
.
author:
Joseph D. Darcy
author:
Scott Seligman
author:
Peter von der Ahé
version:
1.8 07/05/05
See Also: javax.lang.model.util.Elements.getName
since:
1.6 |